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How Do You Vote? 50 Million Google Images Give a Clue
What vehicle is most strongly associated with Republican voting districts? Extended-cab pickup trucks. For Democratic districts? Sedans.
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Scientists Are Designing Artisanal Proteins For Your Body
Our bodies make roughly 20,000 different kinds of proteins, from the collagen in our skin to the hemoglobin in our blood. Some take the shape of molecular sheets...
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The Robots Are Coming, and Sweden Is Fine
From inside the control room carved into the rock more than half a mile underground, Mika Persson can see the robots on the march, supposedly coming for his job...
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Finalists in Nasa's Spacecraft Sweepstakes: A Drone on Titan, and a Comet-Chaser
Would you like NASA to fly a drone across Saturn's largest moon, or to send a probe to collect samples from a duck-shaped comet?
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Why Doesn't the N.f.l. se Tracking Technology For First-Down Calls?
It was a scene almost designed to show the folly of the N.F.L.'s first-down measurement system.
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Scientists 'inject' Information Into Monkeys' Brains
When you drive toward an intersection, the sight of the light turning red will (or should) make you step on the brake. This action happens thanks to a chain of...
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Tracking Dolphins With Algorithms You Might Find on Facebook
Researchers have used a machine learning algorithm similar to Facebook's friend recommender program to track dolphins.
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Google Missed Out on China. Can It Flourish in India?
Every month, about four million more Indians get online. They include people like Manju, a 35-year-old seamstress in this city of ancient palaces, who got her first...
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China's A.i. Advances Help Its Tech Industry, and State Security
During President Trump's visit to Beijing, he appeared on screen for a special address at a tech conference.
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As Silicon Valley Gets 'crazy,' Midwest Beckons Tech Investors
They seem an odd couple. J. D. Vance, author of "Hillbilly Elegy," his best-selling memoir of growing up in the postindustrial Midwest and his journey of escape...
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Five Technologies That Will Rock Your World
After the Russian hacking of the 2016 election, many people worry that technology has gone too far.
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Building A.i. That can Build A.i.
They are a dream of researchers but perhaps a nightmare for highly skilled computer programmers: artificially intelligent machines that can build other artificially...
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How Fiction Becomes Fact on Social Media
Hours after the Las Vegas massacre, Travis McKinney's Facebook feed was hit with a scattershot of conspiracy theories.
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Justices to Decide on Forcing Technology Firms to Provide Data Held Abroad
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether federal prosecutors can force technology companies to turn over data stored outside the United States.
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The World Once Laughed at North Korean Cyberpower. No More.
When North Korean hackers tried to steal $1 billion from the New York Federal Reserve last year, only a spelling error stopped them.
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How Israel Caught Russian Hackers Scouring the World For .s. Secrets
It was a case of spies watching spies watching spies: Israeli intelligence officers looked on in real time as Russian government hackers searched computers around...
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How Computers Turned Gerrymandering Into a Science
About as many Democrats live in Wisconsin as Republicans do.
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Scientists in Mexico Scramble to Deploy Seismic Sensors
Late one night in September, Victor Cruz, a geophysicist at Mexico's National Autonomous University, submitted an article to a scientific journal describing progress...
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Understanding Ethereum, Bitcoin's Virtual Cousin
Bitcoin has many cousins and competitors. None have grown more popular than Ethereum, a global computer network with its own virtual currency, called Ether.
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